The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to stop the use of the pesticide carbofuran on all food crops, including those that are imported.

More letters, cards, bill payments and other first-class mail items are getting to their destinations on time than ever before, the Postal Service said Thursday.

A federal judge in Boise says convicted child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III is mentally competent to face a death penalty hearing.

Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop...

Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights.

Agriculture futures traded mostly higher Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph winds as it moves north over Texas.

Ford Motor Co. posted its worst quarterly loss ever Thursday in a roiling global auto market that also saw profits fall at Daimler AG, Hyundai Motor Co. and AutoNation...

Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop...

A 21-year-old woman was attacked by a grizzly bear about 25 yards from an Alaskan lodge.

The operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins, federal regulators said...

The Federal Reserve says banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from its emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms took a pass.

Air Force officials say three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices earlier this month, triggering an...

A man received eight years in prison Thursday for masterminding an $8 million armored-car heist, a crime he said was born of financial desperation.

An ex-convict has been sentenced to life in prison for the sadistic, 19-hour rape and torture of a Columbia University graduate student.

Federal regulators say the operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins.

Like other major drugmakers, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. saw benefits from the weak dollar in the second quarter, as sales grew at a faster rate...

Energy market investors managed to win back modest gains Thursday following oil’s big drop a day earlier, but again drive natural gas prices sharply lower as a...

A 21-year-old woman was attacked by a grizzly bear about 25 yards from an Alaskan lodge.

The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation aimed at improving the safety of the nation’s bridges, nearly a year after the deadly collapse of an Interstate...